I feel like I should say something, but I don't know what to say.
I loved Twin Peaks. I think about the hallway scene from Lost Highway about once a month. I think Mullholland Drive is amazing, and I remember crying when I watched Elephant Man. For many years, a local radio station used his daily weather reports, and I was always happy to be surprised by his voice in my car.
But I haven't seen everything he's done, and his work doesn't lend itself to pithy bromides about art.
I mourn his passing, and I acknowledge what seems to be a life well lived.
The best thing I can say, I think, is something that Lynch himself said, in the person of Major Briggs from Twin Peaks:
“A vision I had in my sleep last night—as distinguished from a dream, which is mere sorting and cataloguing of the day’s events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream. The mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within this gleaming, radiant marble. I’d known this place. I’d, in fact, been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being. Wandering about, I noticed happily that the house had been immaculately maintained. There had been added a number of additional rooms, but in a way that blended so seamlessly with the original construction that one would never detect any difference. Returning to the house’s grand foyer, there came a knock at the door. My son was standing there. He was happy and carefree. Clearly living a life of deep harmony and joy. We embraced. A warm and loving embrace, nothing withheld. We were, in this moment, one. My vision ended, and I awoke with a tremendous feeling of optimism and confidence in you and your future. That was my vision of you.”
I hope Lynch has found his beautiful white house, and reunited with the deepest wellsprings of his being.
Josie Kafka is a full-time cat servant and part-time rogue demon hunter. (What's a rogue demon?)
I watched Twin Peaks so long ago, I can't recall much besides I being interesting and unusual, and tributes to it are all over the place, including Easter eggs in video games.
ReplyDeleteI saw his Dune movie too, and while I've never been a fan of Dune as an IP, I actually enjoyed the movie to a degree, flaws and all.
Sad we lost Bob and him on the same day.